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  • NAME: John Forsythe
  • OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
  • BIRTH DATE: January 29, 1918
  • DEATH DATE: April 01, 2010
  • EDUCATION: University of North Carolina, Actors Studio
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Penns Grove, New Jersey
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Santa Ynez, California
  • Originally: John Lincoln Freund

Best Known For

John Forsythe was a theater, film and TV actor. He won Golden Globes for playing Blake Carrington in Aaron Spelling’s long-running prime-time drama Dynasty.


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Later Roles

Most recently, Forsythe reprised his role as the enigmatic Charlie in the feature film Charlie's Angels (2000), which starred Drew Barrymore, Lucy Lui and Cameron Diaz.

Personal Life and Death

Forsythe married actress Julie Warren in 1943. The couple had two daughters before Warren’s death in 1994. In 2002, at age 84, he married businesswoman Nicole Carter in a small, private ceremony.

John Forsythe died April 1, 2010, of pneumonia in Santa Ynez, California.

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